User talk:Aciram/Archives/2020/December

Interview Request
Hi,

I am an undergraduate student in an art history course focussing on art activism. I noticed that you are an active contributor to WP:Women in Red (WiR). I am interested in learning more about WiR users like yourself for use in a class project. I would sincerely appreciate if you would agree to answering a few short questions for me.


 * How did you hear about WiR?
 * What made you decide to get involved?
 * How many pages have you contributed to as a part of WiR?
 * How do you decide what pages to work on?
 * What's the page you're most proud of and why?
 * How much time per month do you devote to WiR?
 * Do you view content creation as a form of art?
 * Do you view your work as activism?
 * How do you research a topic that you wish to edit or create a new page on?

If you agree, please feel free to leave your answers as a reply to this post. Thank you for your time in considering my interview request. HonestButterfly (talk) 20:45, 29 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Hi,

I will answer your questions the same way you placed them. Please excuse any potential spelling mistakes, since I am non English-speaking European.

I noticed it by chance while editing and writing articles about women of history. If I remember correctly, I noticed that one of my recently created articles was linked by the project, and that I had thus, without my knowledge, created an article which was listed by the project.
 * How did you hear about WiR?

When reading what the project was about, I realised I was in fact already involved since my interests was the same as the goal of the project; why not make it official?
 * What made you decide to get involved?

I have no idea, but since I have been involved in WiR as well as in Wikipedia for a long time; since I almost all my contributions are articles about women of history which fits to the project; and since I sometimes go there to find ideas, it could very well be thousands.
 * How many pages have you contributed to as a part of WiR?

I am normally ruled entirely by my own interests. I am interested in women's history and study it constantly, and when I can't find the information I search for in English language Wikipedia, I write about it. Mainly, I write about women of history before 1900 - from all over the world, but with a focus on Scandinavia and non-English speaking countries.
 * How do you decide what pages to work on?

That is a difficult questions to answer, since I am not always aware of which of the articles I create were redlisted by the WiR before I created them. I have created several articles of Women's history I am proud of, but since I can't remember which of them which were listed to the project, I don't feel I should mention any. I am proud of the fact that I created a majority of Swedish and Danish suffragists on enwp, and some of them must have been redlisted before I created them.
 * What's the page you're most proud of and why?

Because of the same reasons as stated in reply to the question above, I can't be certain, but I contribute to Wikipedia each day, almost always in the subject which would fit the WiR, even if the particular article was not listed in the project before I wrote them. For me, writing is relaxation to the mind.
 * How much time per month do you devote to WiR?

I would rather call it a combination of relaxation and self study. Since I'm a writer, writing is natural and takes no effort - rather it relaxes me to write. And since I study what interests me in any case, I find it an efficient way of confirming the new information I find by writing it down.
 * Do you view content creation as a form of art?

Not primarily, but I recognize that it is de facto activism to participate in the international democratization of knowledge in this way, as many of the subjects I write about would not have been known by others than historians and experts in the country of their origin, had I not shared it on Wikipedia and particularly the English language version, which is after all in effect the international version. And I am aware of that and proud of it.
 * Do you view your work as activism?

Sometimes I translate articles from other language versions of Wikipedia, sometimes I share it from sholarly text books - the physical kind, or the kind digitalized online. --Aciram (talk) 01:32, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
 * How do you research a topic that you wish to edit or create a new page on?
 * Thank you for your in-depth answers to my questions. I sincerely appreciate your input. Happy editing! HonestButterfly (talk) 02:41, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Russian ladies-in-waiting


A tag has been placed on Category:Russian ladies-in-waiting requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Russian salon-holders


A tag has been placed on Category:Russian salon-holders requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Liz Read! Talk! 16:24, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

Category re-namings
Hi. I see you have been involved in the category page Category:Suffrage organizations in the United Kingdom. It is my proposal we re-name this category and Category:Feminist organizations in the United Kingdom to use the British English spelling of "organisations" instead of "organizations", as is done with the category page Category:Organisations based in the United Kingdom. This would be in-keeping with that page and I assume these would also become sub-categories of that page. Please let me know your thoughts. Helper201 (talk) 19:05, 9 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Apologies, it seems one of these - Category:Feminist organizations in the United Kingdom - has now got a redirect to Category:Feminist organisations in the United Kingdom. However, the matter of Category:Suffrage organizations in the United Kingdom is still a present and clear outlier in its use of spelling. Helper201 (talk) 19:11, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
 * When it comes to the names, I have to concede to an English speaker. I just noticed that the category about women's suffrage organizations (Voter rights and suffrage organizations) needed to have nationality categories (there needs to be even more, for more countries) and I tried to create one of the United Kingdom and one for Canada as best as I could. I'm sure you know better which spelling would the most correct, the main thing for me is that suffrage organization category are given more nationality categories.--Aciram (talk) 19:15, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Btw, I would like to request a stub article from you if you have a free times — Imperial Consort Boknyeong Gwi-in (ko:귀인 양씨 ) of the Cheongju Yang clan (27 September 1882 – 30 May 1929) (복녕당 귀인 양씨). Birth mother Princess Deokhye, the last princess of Korea. Thank you. VocalIndia (talk) 20:42, 26 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you. It is created.--Aciram (talk) 20:52, 26 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Omg! you are so fast ! Thank you so much and keep up your great works. VocalIndia (talk) 20:57, 26 December 2020 (UTC)